4805058859

I called them with full intension's of being pissed off. The gal asked for my domain and pin, I gave it to her. She put me on the do not call list.

If I get a phone call again, I will be pissed and they will hear it. But this seemed to work.

I should have guessed they would advertise to me after clicking through a barrage of ads and no thanks buttons just to register a domain for one buck.

Here's a letter I just sent to the "spam complaint" department at GoDaddy, and I'll copy Bob Parsons (GoDaddy's CEO) as well:



I got "traditional spam" - a telemarketing phone call - from someone who said his name was Jeff and that he worked for godaddy.com.  His telephone number was 480-505-8859

I have such an intense dislike of all telemarketing that I have been on every Do Not Call list since they were invented. I normally don't do business with anyone who engages in telemarketing.  Further, after doing a Google search on that phone number, I find other Internet users have also been getting unwanted calls from this number.

Bob Parsons makes a big deal about being innovative, but your company is now behaving in a really old-fashion and obnoxious manner.

Since I've been a long-time customer of GoDaddy, and have been happy with the service up until now, I'm reluctant to move to another domain name provider.  But I will do just that if I ever get another junk call from your company.  

So, I'll spell it out:  Your company has no permission to ever call me in the future, for any reason.  

And I won't recommend your company so highly in the future.  I've probably recommended dozens of people to you, but now I'll have to warn them that "GoDaddy seems good, but they telemarket, so beware!"

same thing, a call from "jeremy" at godadddy, thanks for your business, let me answer any questions. i don't have any bloody questions!

Got a voicemail from "Corbin" that was 'calculatedly' too fast to catch what he was on about - sounded like he said go.a.com or something - but the number was loud and clear: 480-505-8859.

If I had ANYTHING to do with the website, or even the infrastructure at our company, it might make some sense. I'm in SALES, however, so am thinking their tactics to ramp sales are to call every number in a corporate directory in hopes of achieving a sale; after all, the higher the volume of rejection means that it also has a corresponding increase in acceptance as well - right?

I received a call from GoDaddy, which is actually not a problem at all, it's just that I live overseas at a military base, so they call at a ridiculous hour, usually 3 or 4am. Granted, whoever calls possibly might not be aware, but I have a funky address, and if you google my zip code it SHOWS that I am located in JAPAN not the UNITED STATES.

I've been a GoDaddy user for a couple years now, I just renewed a domain only 2 weeks ago and today I got a call from this number.  The voice mail was pretty neutral, thanking me for using their service and "wondering if they could help my business in anyway".

I also paid the ~$10 to keep my domain info private, obviously this should be a sign I don't want to receive any spam from people viewing my domain info, GoDaddy should take this is a sign that the person will not appreciate the call (honestly I didn't).


If they call again, I'll answer and asked to be taken off the list, but I do loose a little respect for them contacting me in reference to a domain that I paid extra for to keep my info hidden from the public.

Godaddy called to ask if there was anything they could assist me with.  I didn't answer, as I don't answer unexpected calls from numbers i don't know.

The message they left was friendly. Still, I don't want calls - just email me and let me choose when to contact you.

It's especially annoying when they're calling your mobile phone - and leaving a pointless voicemail, which just uses up minutes when you listen to it.

Ya know.  As a business owner myself this is unreal the amount of babies who cry about a phone call.

If all it takes is a phone call to get your panties in a twist you morons have entirely too much time to complain.

I for one appreciate a company who takes the initiative to call and follow-up.  It shows THEY CARE ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS.  

Lets see how "thankful" you are when the other company who doesn't give two [***] about you never contacts you to warn you that your domain is about to expire and you never selected auto-renew.  I'll bet that "annoying" telephone call would have been a blessing.

Do us all a favor, Drop your self righteous attitude, answer the phone and say "No, Thanks" then get on with you life.

This concludes your lesson of the day.

GoDaddy telemarketing operating rouge in violation of their privacy policy and customer telemarketing preferences. FTC notified.

I dont get it. Im with you on this one.

I got this call just a minute ago. I only get this call every time i renew my domain. i think its actually helpful they care. they dont ask me any questions. they just thank me for renewing my domains and if i had any questions to call them with the number they called me from ( they actually said it too). so i agree that most of you are just complaining about nothing.

i been with them more then 8 years already. they do this once a year. big deal. atleast when they call, they only call that once.

if you care about 1 minute beinging wasted then you have the worst phone service.

most of you guys just complain too much!

hah, i too have services and it's so annoying when they call like this. they're all middle aged men with their knit polo's and khaki's trying to make a sale...

you know, kind of like the typical car salesman...

I just got the call from this #, it's godaddy.com

I get a call from one of these numbers each time I place a purchase with godaddy with a new account, and very sporadically each time I make purchases within the same account.  The service representative on the other side has never once offered to sell me something new, but rather has called to make sure I knew what to do to set up a domain name, or to verify that a change to my hosting account has taken place, that I knew where to find more information on the GoDaddy site on what the next steps would be. Perhaps my experiences are unique, but I've purchased over 1000 domain names, 200 hosting accounts, and various other products across more than 25 new accounts (for my clients). Sorry for all of you who came across a different experience... hopefully next time will be less annoying.

It says "Arizona" because their service center (and their business) is based in Arizona. When they call my cell phone it gives me their number, when they call my home phone it gives me "Arizona" (they do like you said, only once unless you sign up for something new, but I do that a lot).

I just bought a domain name with GoDaddy and a hosting account, and then their Website Tonight template based builder. Received a call from this number to see why they were calling. Guy named Robert answered and said I bought a hosting account and a Website tonight account which I only need Website builder because it includes hosting. Had me verify a pin I created, so I didn't have to give the CC info. cancelled the hosting account for me, and processed the refund for me. I got the refund in about a week. Then walked me through setting up the Website. WHO DOES THIS?!

When we sign up to opt out of business calls from telemarketers, we can have those who are contemptuous of privacy rights fined for calling after having been asked to make sure numbers are removed from their automated calling system.
I am also suspicious about Business "Owners" who begin their remarks in a business forum with "Ya know" or refer to others as "morons". Very professional. Are you a Professional babysitter?

I don't see why people have a problem with this. I only answered because I looked it up here while it was ringing.

They were professional and direct. Not only did they not sell me anything, they actually noted we had products my company's IT department had signed up for and not used. They (not me) decided to refund them (all 3 years worth, their idea). In no way was this a'telemarketing' or a sales call and in fact I say it's nice to see this happening with companies compared to the normal crap of poor customer service.

You people need to lighten up.

Okay people... calm down a little here.

You pay the extra $10/20 a month to keep your info private. Good for you, smart thinking.

But GoDaddy.com is NOT "the public". If you bought a product from them, they have every right to look at it to give a follow-up call. Its good customer service for crying out loud. You act like its not! You want bad customer service? I ordered something from a website and when the product did not arrive at my home by the latest date given to me, I got worried since it was a birthday present. I could not reach the company by phone OR email and I contacted them repeatedly. It took a full 3 weeks to find out it would be another 2 weeks before I would get my product, and this was 5 weeks after the week and a half they said it would take. So yeah, it took a full 7 weeks, plus a few more days to get my product.

THAT is bad customer service.

Be happy that GoDaddy.com CARES enough to make sure that you know how to set up your website (cause, news flash. NOT EVERY ONE DOES) or that your site is expiring. If you dont renew your site, they probably have an automated email to make sure you remember.

Next time... try replying to the stupid email. They might actually, hold your horses now!, stop emailing you about it if you ask them to.

But really, they might call at bad times... but at least they are calling to make sure everything works. And for craps sake, they GO OUT OF THEIR WAY to refund you something you dont need or arent using!

Hmm...if this *IS* one time only from Godaddy then that's okay, but I don't want to be hassled by them through email, let alone with calls!

Obviously if there's some actual issue it's fine if they call me though :)

There free web site they give you is terrible, but thankfully the actual domain registration seems to work just fine (so far!)